Nurses union fighting layoffs at Holy Family

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Eagle Tribune

By Lauren DiTullio

METHUEN — The Massachusetts Nurses Association has filed a grievance against Steward Health Care over the layoffs of six nurses at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen.

David Schildmeier, a spokesperson for the union, said the grievance was filed March 11 following the announcement that Holy Family Hospital's cancer center would become clinically affiliated with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. As part of the partnership, Dana-Farber doctors will take over caring for patients that receive chemotherapy infusions at Holy Family.

As a result, Schildmeier said, the six nurses working in the William L. Lane Cancer Care Center at Holy Family "were bumped" from their jobs. Four of them moved to other positions in the hospital, Schildmeier said. Two of them took a severance package and left Holy Family.

Schildmeier said the union will fight to get the nurses reinstated.

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A no layoff clause means no layoffs.

[yeoman6987]

1. Ok. No layoffs

I imagine the hospital is in debt. What to cut? I would say maybe an administrator but they may have a no lay off to. Hospital better go through the budget and find something or sooner rather then later the hospital will have to close permanently as we have seen across America. It is scary how many hospitals are closing.

[mpcamb]

2. I agree. Chop an administrator.

Here's an article about who dashing off with the health care dollar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/sunday-review/doctors-salaries-are-not-the-big-cost.html?_r=1

It's not the RNs or the others in the trenches.